[1] has set the numActiveColumnsPerInhArea = 240 with 4096 columns and
globalInhibition
= 1. Wouldn't this produce more than 2% activity?

Pulin Agrawal
पुलिन अग्रवाल

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Subutai Ahmad <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi An,
>
> Please see [1]. It gets 95.5% accuracy. However, please note this is a
> very simplistic system (just SP+KNN). It does not incorporate hierarchy,
> temporal pooling, or any sort of learning of invariances.  (BTW, anything
> less than 99% is not considered very good for MNIST. MNIST is all about
> getting those last few corner cases! :-)
>
> --Subutai
>
> [1] https://github.com/numenta/nupic.research/tree/master/image_test
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 11:00 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello.
>>
>> Sorry for the last email. Thx to the rich formatting :( ... I have to
>> type again.
>>
>> Recently, I got the result of the test. I followed the source code and
>> built the Spatial Pooler + KNN classifier. Then I extracted images from
>> MNIST dataset(Train/test : 60000/10000) and parsed them to the model. I
>> tried to test with different parameters (using small dataset: Train/Test -
>> 6000/1000 ), the best recognition result is about 87.6%. After that, i
>> tried the full size MNIST dataset, the result is 89.6%. Currently, this is
>> the best result I got.
>>
>> Here is the statistics. It shows the error counts for each digits. the
>> Row presents the input digit. the column presents the recognition result.
>> Most of the "7" are recognized as "9". It seems the SDR from SP is still
>> not good enough for the classifier.
>>
>> I found some interesting things. When I let the "inputDimensions" and
>> "columnDimensions" be "784" and "1024", the result will be around 68%. If i
>> use "(28,28)","(32,32)" and keep others the same, the result will be around
>> 82%. That 's a lot of difference. It seems the array shape will effect SP a
>> lot.
>>
>> Did any one get a better result? Does any one have some suggestion about
>> the parameters or others?
>>
>> Thank you.
>> An Qi
>> Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology - Nakagawa Laboratory
>> 2-24-16 Naka-cho, Koganei-shi, Tokyo 184-8588
>> [email protected]
>>
>
>

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